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Google Updates ReCAPTCHA With Easier CAPTCHAs For Humans

Posted by timothy on from the destroy-all-humans dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google today released an update to its reCAPTCHA system that creates different classes of CAPTCHAs for different kinds of users. In short, it makes your life easier if you're a human, and your work much harder if you're a bot. Unsurprisingly, Google wouldn't share too much detail as to how the new system works, aside from saying it uses advanced risk analysis techniques, actively considering the user's entire engagement (before, during and after) with the CAPTCHA. In other words, the distorted letters are not the only test."

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  1. Poor Granny... by beaverdownunder · · Score: 3, Insightful

    She ends up on a bum IP and ends up getting hopelessly indecipherable gibberish as the verification for paying her electric bill?

    Not sure blacklisting is the best way to go about this...

  2. Re:Google can now see the future? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Google can't see the future, but we can.

    It's a future in which Google has added so many barriers to using their services that they have no human users left. Only the bots don't care about having to deal with all the added tedium.

  3. Re:Spoiler! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Finally, I found the solution at the time: you have to go to google's login page one time and then
    all the CAPTCHA's start becoming readable.

    If you mean you have to go there to log in, rather than just load the page, doesn't that rather defeat the purpose of using tor in the first place?